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Huge fan of wipe on poly. But a few things I disagree with here. Water based wipe on poly water evaporates in like a few minutes, that's kinda the point of it. So I don't think there's a problem there. If you're fine with much more grams of water entering a blade over the course of hours...

@Scifer you will have to post a video of you playing with that thing as we are all curious now

I use the water based one. Doesn't soak into the wood and doesn't change the wood properties as much. All you need is a very thin layer on the blade face that gets in the way between a glued rubber and the wood so that the fibers don't get pulled up when removing rubbers. Since the wood on...

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

I'd use none of those and use wipe on polyurethane instead.

He says he's been playing for almost a year. So 0-1 years.

You can always sand down a thicker handle to fit your hand. I did that to the flare on my Yasaka Resonate. If you're looking for the perfect fit, getting something slightly thicker and sanding to custom fit your hand is a better option than trying to find a perfect fit from the factory.

Got these delivered in one-day at 20 cents a pair. They seem to work great. No slippage no matter how much I move my head around. Worth every penny! Thanks @Tempest/Comet !

It'll tell you the hardness of the blade component 'sandwich' at low impact speed. This is an important part of the mixture that makes a complete racket do what it does. TTgearlab has an article which explains what would need to be measured to get a very simple model of how a racket might...

Yeah, miss timing the ball and swinging too early probably accounts for 80%+ of my errors on backhand. The more you're comfortable with visualizing your arm as the prime mover in the stroke, the more you'll be tempted to reach out with your arm away from the body to contact. You're trying to...

Those silicon buds look like a great idea. I don't need my glasses to hug my ears tightly normally but when I play I do want them secure so they don't slip. I've lost a lot of points due to sweat and slippage in humid environments. Those buds seem like best of both worlds where I can have them...

You can try using Advanced Spectrum Analyzer PRO if you got Android (it's free to use). 1. Top right of app tap on option to"Enable peak hold" 2. Bounce ball on empty blade 3. Hit pause. 4. It'll show you the curve of the highest frequency achieved. Drag along the line and get to the first...

This video popped up which relevant to this discussion. After considering this for a bit, I wouldn't take what Fang Yinchi says literally about the abdomen generating power. Abdominal muscles aren't aligned and can't traverse in the direction you need to actually thrust your abdomen forward. So...

Try BH punches with it. Impact sounds like a gunshot and the change in ball speed from mild to wild really catches people off guard. Only rubber I've played with that has such a noticeable jump in gear like that. All I wanted to do during games was finish points with my BH because it was so...

If you're anything like me, having too much setup time is going to result in a missed shot about as often as having too little. I'd say I'm too early to the ball twice or three times as often as too late. I'm currently trying to fix this, and one of the most promising adjustments is to make...

The biggest reason why I don't buy expensive blades is that I've researched the issue for a while and still can't determine why an expensive blade would play any better than a cheaper clone of it. In the end, a blade is generally 5 to 9 pieces of plywood glued together with maybe 2 of those...

Hope you like it. Boosted Rxton 3 Blue is still the funnest rubber to play for me. BH punches and put away shots sound like gunshots. Unfortunately the topsheet lost a lot of grip and the rubber got a few degrees harder after about 30-35 hours worth of play. I need a more consistent rubber while...

Picked up a sheet of LAC, Rxton 7, and a pretty cool looking DF ball holder:

The Xiang Peng face plate isn't for you but your opponent to look at. Any time you want to intimidate your opponent just flash them the butt of your racket handle and they'll get to see Xiang Peng's Chinese movie villain features and permanent angry scowl.

You've been spoiled as we all were by Montpelier. If you compare this event to all the other WTT events this year, it's probably in top 5 at least in terms of crowd noise and atmosphere. Home crowd is a huge factor, and the more local it gets the more support is given. German fans aren't...